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‘Paleo-robots’ to help scientists understand how fish started to walk on land

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paleo robots to help scientists understand how fish started to walk on land

The transition from water to land is one of the most significant events in the history of life on Earth. Now, a team of roboticists, palaeontologists and biologists is using robots to study how the ancestors of modern land animals transitioned from swimming to walking, about 390 million years ago.

Source: ScienceDaily.com